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Listening to Chris Pirillo’s webinar last week “Mobile devices, mobile workers. What’s an IT pro to do?” demonstrated that the cloud and mobile devices are the glue that increasingly link everything together. Smartphones aren’t just phones, they are computers, and powerful ones at that. They are replacing tasks that used to be done by [...] Cloud computing has tremendous advantages over traditional methods of website hosting, data storage, and back end database applications. It scales instantly to meet demand, you often are billed only for resources actually used, and data is stored redundantly by default, lessening the chance of loss. Rackspace and NASA teamed together six months ago [...] So, your website is humming along getting 1,000 hits a day on a shared hosting server when Boing Boing links to you. Suddenly you’re getting 5,000 hits an hour. Fantastic, you think. But wait, the site is really sluggish and you can’t even post to it. Then your web host sends you a grumpy [...] Adam Curry on the demise of delicious (and Yahoo Buzz, as well) and why we need to take steps now to insure that our online data is not vulnerable to a service going down. If the stories that are being posted are true, then once again we see the perils of trusting the cloud. [...] Photo. Idaho Statesman article on current cattle rustling With the economy tanking, cattle rustling is back. ReadWriteWeb presents a way to use RFIDs to track cattle and the cloud to store the data securely. The guiding motto of our strategy is this: THE RANCHER OWNS HIS OWN DATA. There is no exception to this. [...] Why? Because apps that you buy now at, say, the iPhone app store will soon be replaced by apps run by the mobile browser. That makes them device-independent too. Or so says Google, who obviously has a pony in this race with their Chrome OS and browser. They do have a point. While app stores [...] |  | ||||
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